Muhammad Ali

Who is Cassius Clay; if you asked the majority of the people in the United States who this was many people couldn’t tell you. If you then asked the same people who Muhammad Ali (the name Cassius took after converting to Islam) is all of a sudden they all start sounding like boxing scholars. They start saying words like: the greatest, the fastest, brash, and cocky. All of these words do describe Ali but …

…about a man that was strong in his convictions that he would lose all of his fans and stay in jail just to do what he believed in. Whatever people say there is one thing in common everyone says that Ali was the greatest sports figure in the twentieth century. Whether it is for his in ring accomplishments of his out of ring contributions everyone can agree that Ali has met the status of, ICON.